The Laboratory
of Liquid Crystals at the Institute of Solid State Physics
(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) includes a
staff of
four members. The main research topics
of the Laboratory are: theoretical and experimental investigations of
thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals; flexoelectricity;
experiment, theory and modeling in biophysics - model lipid membranes
(giant vesicles and microemulsion droplets), polymersomes,
lipid-protein interactions, etc. The scientists of the Laboratory
of Liquid Crystals maintain fruitful collaborations with foreign
scientific organisations in the framework of several scientific contracts. The Laboratory took part of a
French-Bulgarian Laboratory "without walls", called "Vesicles and
Membranes", and funded by the
Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences,
University
of Sofia and
C.N.R.S. (France).